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Thanksgiving has rolled around again. Although we have many reasons to give thanks we are often so caught up in “celebrations” that we can’t find time to truly “give thanks”. Thanksgiving, like every other holiday, seems to be turning into just another long vacation weekend when we hurry and scurry to “have a good time” as opposed to a day when we really do “count our blessings” and give thanks!
One very important, yet often overlooked, blessing truly is freedom and this great country, the United States of America.

This week I have a rather poignant recollection of a “last Thanksgiving”. It is an ever timely story about young men, the wars they fight and the remembrances they too often leave behind. (more…)

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According to OneStat.com, the internet’s authority on website usage, MonticelloLive.com achieved our 1 millionth pageview (hit) last week, for the calendar year 2008.

Click on the weekly graph to the left to enlarge it, and see the steady growth the “Monticello’s Community Wesite” has achieved.

Website owner/operator, Joe Burgess, wants to thank the loyal readers, as well as the many contributors that helped bring this level of success with reach. 

A special ”THANK YOU” goes out to the sponsors that help make this milestone possible.  Make it a point to tell them…….”I say your ad on MonticelloLive.”

The Drew Central Elementary PTO will be selling Red brick building flat ceramic ornaments. We will also be selling red acrylic ball ornaments.

The cost will be $7.00 each. Ornaments will be in on December 1.  You may come by the school to purchase your ornament.

Please contact Lynn Harris at 224-1667 or Meredith Shirey at Drew Central Elementary ar 367-6893 if you have any questions. Pass the word along to folks that would remember fondly the red brick building.

Two local men have been brought BACK INTO city hall in the past two days, charged with driving on suspended license, immediately after leaving court and police departments.  One man is in jail, and the other has a court date. (more…)

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MonticelloLive is proud to add another weekly feature for our readers.  “Memories from the Museum” will be writtem by Mrs. Sheilla Lampkin.  I consider Mrs. Sheilla to be “the source” to go to for Drew County historical information, so check back each week for “Memories from the Museum.

Since Veteran’s Day was celebrated on Tuesday, November 11, a short history of the holiday should be appropriate and interesting.
Veterans Day was originally set aside to commemorate the armistice – the end of hostilities – between the Allies and the Germans in World War I. This event occurred at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 – November 11, 1918.
(Incidentally, World War I was then referred to as the “Great War” because no one could imagine a greater war until WW II came along. It was also called “the war to end all wars”. Unfortunately that moniker also proved untrue.) (more…)

 Monticello’s three Veteran’s Organizations, the DAV, VFW, and American Legion, united to recognize local Veterans on Veterans Day, with a ceremony at the Drew County Courthouse.  The program was moved into the upstairs courtroom because of rainy weather.

This was also the 20 Year Anniversary of the “Wall of Honor” at the front steps of the county courthouse. (more…)

With today being Veteran’s Day, it only seemed appropriate to show how Mr. Robie Scott felt about his country.

Shown here is his golf cart, proudly displaying the Flag of the United States of America.

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A tribute to Robie Scott

A Memorial to another from the “Greatest Generation” (more…)

The Drew County Health Unit practiced it’s Mass Dispensing Plan last Friday, and provided a major service to the community by giving over 1600 free flu shot to citizens who came by First Assembly of God Church.

Shown here, Kim Ray (an instructor at UAM College of Technology at McGehee) supervises as Crystal McCarty of McGehee (a nursing student) gives a flu shot to Bobby Cornelius of Monticello. (more…)

Two men who were stopped by Arkansas State Trooper Clayton Moss, near Lacey Wednesday, went before Monticello District Court Judge Ken Harper, Friday for first appearance bond hearings. (more…)

With ALL boxes reporting, the final but UNOFFICIAL results for Drew County show the Alcohol Sales issue for Saline Township failed, and John McCain and Sarah Palin defeated  Barak Obama and Joe Biden by a ballot count of 3,860 to 2,598, in Drew County polls.

Other results are listed on this link.

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